10 Ways to Make Your Laptop Run More Efficiently

Erase temporary Internet Files. This cannot be stressed or emphasized enough. Every time you go to a site on the web or open a file, a temporary copy is made and kept in your hard drive. They may be called "temporary" but they’re there for a long time. The more you have on your system, the more they’re going to slow down your laptop. Whether you’re running Firefox, Chrome or Internet Explorer, find out how to clear your browser’s cache, and do it regularly – Delete Internet History, Cache and More.

Get rid of unnecessary startup programs. Many programs want to start running as soon as you boot up your computer. Although these programs may not always be visible on your desktop, they’re still running in the background and sucking up your valuable RAM. This can significantly slow down the laptop as time goes by. Find out how to modify your "msconfig", and manually remove these programs from launching on startup. You won’t be removing them from your computer, just preventing them from running every time you start up your computer – The Best Startup Managers.

Keep your laptop running cool. Avoid keeping your laptop directly on a soft surface such as your bed or couch. It needs to be able to breather freely and allow air to circulate. Otherwise, your processor might overheat, causing slow-downs, crashes and even physical damage to components.

Uninstall unused programs. Any programs that are not being used are just taking up space on your hard drive. Please note that deleting a program folder is not the same as uninstalling. Make sure to properly remove programs using the Uninstall function in your Control Panel. Otherwise, you could just end up creating more problems – Best Uninstallers for Windows.

Upgrade your RAM if necessary. If you have a tendency of having many large programs all opened at once, you may not have enough RAM on your system. Look into purchasing some new RAM. Prices are very reasonable, and it’s a cost-effective way to increase the speed and efficiency of your laptop.

If you follow the advice listed in this article, you can possibly get an extra 2 or 3 years of life from your laptop before you’ll need to replace it.

But rememberâ€¦ before doing any kind of work on your system, it’s vital that you create a backup copy of all your most important data. This way, you’ll be prepared in the unlikely event that something goes wrong.

This is a guest post by Patrick Jobin from Storagepipe Solutions, who is a leader in backup software for laptops and online backup for business servers. Want to guest post for us? Visit the Guest Post information page to read how you can submit guest posts to us.

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I'll give you a one stop solution. Stop using windows and start using Ubuntu or any linux. Your machine would run like a mad horse and you never have to search again on "How do I make my computer run fast"

Ubuntu is the destiny of my current laptop. It is an HP 9010 that is five years old already, and having served me faithfully through many adventures is due for retirement soon. Ubuntu seems like the logical step to take here, as the hardware is still fine, jyst battling a bit with modern software, that's all. Back to basics it is then, I have to experiment with Ubuntu at some stage of the fight.

Hi NetAge. You're on the right track with your plan to switch the old lappy to ubuntu. I switched my Atom processor netbook from WinXP to Lucid Lynx and never looked back. It runs so much faster that it makes XP seem somewhere between 'excruciatingly slow' and 'down right unusable'.

Just a suggestion:

The normal ubuntu's desktop manager (called 'Gnome') can be a bit too resource hungry to live happily on an older system, so you may see less performance gains vs Windows than you might have expected. check into some of the other flavors of ubuntu before you install (eg kubuntu, ubuntu netbook remix, lubuntu, xubuntu, mythbuntu). Some variations are geared toward lower-end hardware, viz xubuntu and lubuntu.

My personal preference in this situation is to go with the 'xubuntu' variant, which has the same core ubuntu, but replaces Gnome with xfce, a similar but somewhat simplified interface. xubuntu also comes with it's own collection of software that is largely the same as in ubuntu, but some of the larger, more full-featured (i.e. resource-hungry) applications are left out or replaced with a lighter-weight equivalent. (For example, where Ubuntu installs the full OpenOffice.org suite for handling office docs, spreadsheets, presentations, etc, Xubuntu uses instead several small independent apps: gnumeric for spreadsheets, Abiword for word processing, orage for calendar, etc. These apps work fine for my everyday needs, YMMV.)

I would recommend Xubuntu even if you do need some of the more powerful, heavier-weight applications. The free and open nature of most linux software means that you are in no way locked-in to the pre-installed apps, and installing new programs is eleventy billion percent easier and slicker than in windows using the new "ubuntu software center" program.

One last suggestion: when you are ready to make the switch, try all 3 of these desktop environments from a liveCD or liveUSB before you install. That way you can try it out, and most importantly verify that it works with all of your hardware, before making any changes to your computer.

It may sound odd but don't let dust build up inside too. Spray regularly with a can of compressed air through the heat vents to keep it at bay. Overheating will cause major component failures, my DVD burner went first!

I think every person should have knowledge for how to run their laptops more Efficiently. If you run lots of programms then it will be affect on the speed of your laptop.

If you want to run faster then Go to Start, RUN, then enter “msconfig” into the box, and enter. This brings up the STARTUP CONFIGURATION UTILITY.

Go to the tab startup, and you can see all the programs that are loaded into your computer upon bootup. Simply uncheck those that you do do want – this can be a tough task, as the names are probably not meaningful.

Terrible article. Inaccurate, filled with misinformation, and virtually useless. I’ve seen countless of these stupid articles on the Internet, but whoa, never seen one this terribly written. It seems to be designed for absolute beginners to *Windows*, not even remotely intelligent people.

The part about the Registry shattered any credibility you had left after writing a ‘top ten’ list.

“If your hard drive is too full, it can also cause problems with your computer’s RAM and processing capability.” You can’t be serious. A full harddrive (like >95%) should only slow down the speed of disk I/O, and not affect RAM or CPU whatsoever. And if I were you, I would have linked to the far superior CCleaner, which comes with one of those retarded Registry Cleaners as well, but won’t totally spyware the hell out of you nor cause BSODs, nor totally ruin your system.

“Keep your laptop running cool.” Finally, some decent advice.

“Upgrade your RAM if necessary.” You forgot to mention that 4GB is enough for 99% of people, and 8GB is pretty overkill for 99.9%. Even gaming doesn’t require much RAM.

I’m wondering why I’m on Techie-Buzz. You reminded me how retarded this site is, so I’ll get off it now.

roger

This is totally useless. I’ve had a Core2duo processor laptop with 2GB ram with Nvidia G force Video Card and I purchased a cooling pad for it before purchasing that loptop never use it on bed or sofa or any other thing but still there was a VGA death in just 2 months and I replaced the VGA Chip with new one but the same thing happened to me again in just 1 month. I have C Cleaner, Kaspersky Anti Virus and very much free hard every thing working but still this things happens to me to this is totally bullshit Article……..

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Stefano Izzo

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